Can I view my spouse's family tree from my account?

LegacyUser

Jeremy William Peters said: I'd like to have the option to look at my spouse's family tree on my login. (Right now it looks like we have to log in to her account to look at her family tree, and log in to my account to look at my family tree.) I'm related to them, too. Thanks!

LegacyUser

jacall said: Jeremy, you are right about needing to log into your wife’s account to see her on your family tree. I have found it frustrating too. But, there is a good reason for this when you view your family tree. I am assuming that your wife is living. Unless you have added living people, which is NOT recommended! you will not see LIVING persons on your family tree. It is simply a privacy issue.

LegacyUser

JimGreene said: jacall is right, it is a privacy issue because in reality you are not related to your wife's family. There are a few things you can do. Even though adding living people is not recommended it may be necessary in order to do what you want. If you take this course of action we recommend only adding the minimum amount of data, like name and birth date. Click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser for instructions on what to do:
http://broadcast2.lds.org/familysearc...
Another option would be to login in as your child. Your line and your spouse's line are direct lines for your children.

LegacyUser

Mary Phillips said: Help! I am working on a family tree for my stepchilden and am unable to access any of their family history. Can you help me?

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: Welcome to the community support forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

This discussion is over 8 years old and the responses and information is out of date.

First of all, FamilySearch FamilyTree is a single tree for all of mankind. Due to privacy laws, living persons in the tree can be seen only by those who created the record.

Despite some who claim otherwise, the massive tree is not idea for displaying living persons and should not be used for that purpose.

There is an excellent (FamilySearch approved) training guide called The Family History Guide (http://thefhguide.com/). It is an online guide and does its best to stay up to date with the latest changes in FamilySearch. It is also a training guide for several other sites.

Because of privacy rules and that your step-children would not be able to see the living persons you enter, I recommend you use one of the fully certified Family Tree management programs -- Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and Roots Magic. All three have free versions available through the Solutions Gallery (link at the bottom of this page) and they will give you an opportunity to see which one you like the best. Then, when you want a fully-featured version, you can decide whether or not its additional features are worth the additional cost. Most of them are not overly expensive.

The fact that they interface with the massive tree on the FamilySearch site provides some additional abilities that are not available (even in the free version) to other tree management programs. Again, the solutions gallery can give you more details about other tree management programs.

The advantage to using a personal program is that it is not exposed to the internet and subject to the privacy laws that sites like FamilySearch abide by.